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# 3774 Long Time Coming Thanks
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Q. See question above. How about if someone travels by boat from a town to another town, does he have to say Hagomel?
A. Mishna Berura (219: 1) maintains that when traveling by boat and arriving to a town where one will spend one or two ....
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Posted 7/7/2022 10:33 PM |
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# 3773 Thanks So Far
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Q. . How far does one have to travel in a boat (24 ft.) during the summer to have to say Hagomel when he returns?
A. Poskim disagree as how far should one travel on a sea to be required to recite Hagomel. Following the Sephardic tradit ....
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Posted 7/7/2022 10:32 PM |
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# 3772 Have a Head for Heights?
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Q. See question above . Sometime ago we received the following shaila; Q. Would it be a correct action for our shul to rent out some of its roof space for the installation of a high communication antenna. Two benefits are involved. a) Increasing th ....
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Posted 7/7/2022 10:31 PM |
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# 3771 A Tall Shaila
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Q. The Gemoro makes it quite clear that a shul should be higher than the roofs of where people live. In an area which has houses, this may not be so difficult, but in a city full of apartment buildings, how does one adhere to this rule? Does it mak ....
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Posted 7/7/2022 10:29 PM |
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# 3770 Body Shame?
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Q. If the above is permitted, can it be done as a regular business? (I resold that head at a great gain).
A. Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that one should not make a business of this kind, since it also denigrates human life ....
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Posted 7/1/2022 10:43 AM |
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# 3769 Watch the Head
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Q. Dear Rabino, it was great communicating again after so many years. I got an unusual question, as I told you, I much enjoy visiting the old open market places in Mexico City and other smaller villages, sometimes you find most unusual items and I ....
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Posted 7/1/2022 10:41 AM |
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# 3768 Catch that Name!
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Q. See question above. In a large shul where there is two people with the same name and one is a Levi, should then this title be included in the name? Will the title be said after the end of the name that includes the mother, or after his name?
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Posted 7/1/2022 10:37 AM |
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# 3767 Making a Name
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Q. When one davens for a Choleh (sick person) does one include in the name the Cohen or Levi title?
A. The common custom is not to mention any titles when reciting a Mi Sheberach for the ill.
Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion ....
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Posted 7/1/2022 10:35 AM |
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# 3766 The Strange Blessing
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Q. Hello Rav, regarding the bracha on people with unusual feature and on strange animals (meshane haberiyot), I read that you can't say it if you've seen them before. Would seeing them in pictures (not in person) make it prohibited to then say the ....
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Posted 7/1/2022 10:34 AM |
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# 3765 But, not that Late
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Q. See question above: Does a woman that usually davens every day also daven Ma'ariv?
A. Most Poskim maintain that women are not obligated to daven Ma’ariv, since Ma’ariv was initially established as a voluntary prayer even for men, an ....
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Posted 7/1/2022 10:32 AM |
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# 3764 Never Too Late?
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R-e question 3744. I'm still confused. I understand from the answer that once a woman davens Shabbos morning she should wait to hear kiddush before eating. But is there a time limit as to how long she can drink and hold off with davening? if she wa ....
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Posted 7/1/2022 10:30 AM |
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# 3763 Carefully Join the Party
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Q. On a Friday night early Shabbos Sheva Brochos, someone who wants to join but unlike the rest of the people that already prayed Maariv, he has not. Since he usually davens when night sets in and he is needed on that later minyan. Can he wash and ....
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Posted 6/26/2022 3:36 PM |
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# 3762 Honor the King!
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Q. Do people have to stand when the Chosson gets an Aliya and walks towards the Torah?
A. Poskim write that it is the minhag to stand for him since he is considered as a king. (Orchos Chaim - H. Kiddushin p. 66, Rokeach 355 and others)< ....
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Posted 6/24/2022 12:08 PM |
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# 3761 Say Kaddish for this Shaila?
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Q. Can a Ger recite Kaddish for his dear father that did not convert, but was very good and helpful to him, practically from the ' Chasidei Umot Haolam', (righteous of the nations)?
A. Z'kan Aharon (2; 86) maintains that although it is ....
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Posted 6/24/2022 12:05 PM |
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# 3760 Up with the Chosson
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Q. On the Shabbos Sheva Brochos (the one after the wedding), is the Chosson a chiyuv to get an Aliya? What if there is a Yohrzait who always gets Maftir on that Shabbos, who has priority?
A. Mogen Avrohom (282), Biur Halocho (136) and ....
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Posted 6/24/2022 12:00 PM |
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3759 A Sefer on New Seforim II
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A Sefer on New Seforim II Q. Does one make a Shecheyanu bracha when a new Sefer Torah is donated and introduced to the Shul?
A. See question above. On question 3736 we wrote: "Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a opinion is that the Sefer ....
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Posted 6/24/2022 11:55 AM |
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# 3758 A Sefer on New Seforim
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Q. Does one make a Shecheyanu bracha when buying or receiving a new beautiful Shas or any other precious Sefer?
A. Mishna Berura (223: 13) quotes a disagreement between Poskim if a Shecheyanu bracha should be recited for new seforim, si ....
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Posted 6/24/2022 10:52 AM |
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# 3757 Stay Apart
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Q. When traveling by plane and walking on the corridor, most often one is going to have to walk between two women seating in the aisle seats. To avoid the prohibition involved, should one take a jacket or other object in one hands to create a separ ....
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Posted 6/24/2022 10:51 AM |
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# 3756 Dressed to Kill?
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Q. See question above. If these two women are, as is common nowadays not dressed with Tz'nius (decor), can I still take out a sefer and learn Torah next to them?
A. Shulchan Aruch (O.H. 75: 2) rules that one may not read the shema or r ....
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Posted 6/24/2022 10:49 AM |
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# 3755 Talk the Walk
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Q. Dear Rov, I have a few questions concerning traveling by plane this days, when the planes are very often totally full.
If I'm given a seat between two women and I have already asked them if they would kindly change seats with me bu ....
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Posted 6/24/2022 10:47 AM |
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